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1 Tankah - Sanda Thudhamma
| Issuer | Arakan, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1653 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Bengali |
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| Reverse description | The reverse likewise presents the entire field covered with multiple lines of Bengali-Arakanese script in a bold, archaic hammered style, closely mirroring the layout of the obverse. Royal epithets and additional titulature of King Sanda Thudhamma are inscribed across the flan, with characters filling the space to the irregular rim. The strike is characteristic of hand-hammered coinage, with slightly uneven depth and flan distortion at the periphery. No decorative border or inner circle is present. The inscription continues the epigraphic tradition of Arakan tankah coinage from the seventeenth century. |
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Sanda Thudhamma came to power in 1652 after orchestrating the murder of his predecessor, King Narapawara, and his reign marks one of the more turbulent stretches in Arakanese history — a period of Mughal pressure from the west and internal dynastic violence that made stable coinage production intermittent at best. The tankah denomination itself reflects Arakan's long monetary entanglement with the Bengal Sultanate, whose currency conventions Arakanese kings had adopted centuries earlier despite the kingdom's Theravada Buddhist identity.